'America's Got Talent' to Get Golden Buzzer Rule Change for 2024's Season 19, Judges React
There’s a major rule change coming for the upcoming 19th season of America’s Got Talent and it will help several contestants move forward in the competition.
The golden buzzer was introduced in season nine and it allows judges to send an auditioning act directly to the live shows, no matter what the other judges think.
All four judges – Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, and Sofia Vergara – and host Terry Crews all get to press the golden buzzer, sending five acts automatically to the live shows. Now there’s a change coming.
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Each judge will get to press the golden buzzer TWICE in season 19, while Terry will still get just one push. This will send nine acts to the live shows automatically.
Terry told Us Weekly, “There’s so many times we needed to give a Golden Buzzer and you ran out. It’s kind of like running out of Halloween candy. You know what I mean? And people [are] still coming to the house. And you keep having to apologize. Not the season, not the season.”
Howie said, “When we first got note of the Golden Buzzer, originally, I thought, ‘Wow.’ There are moments where you just go, ‘Wow,’ and your jaw just drops on that desk and you don’t know how to express it and the power of being able to say, ‘Wow,’ with your hand on a Golden Buzzer and push somebody right to the live shows was amazing.”
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